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Heraldry of Kislev as depicted in Total War: Warhammer III.

The following is a complete chronology of the major events in the history of the Tzardom of Kislev using the Kislevite Gospodarin Calendar, with dates in the more commonly used Imperial Calendar of the Old World presented in parentheses.[1a]

As with all things historical, it is impossible to be certain as to the reliability of some of these dates, as the Kislevite practice of placing their rulers at whatever battle they feel most fitting of their skills and temperament seems designed to give the scholar of history headaches. Similarly, dates of particularly ancient events are equally vague, and it is hoped that readers will forgive any lapses caused by the vagaries of current records.[1a]

Chronology of Kislev

  • ca. –1600 (-76 IC) - By this time, the lands north of the River Urskoy are peopled by the Human nomadic tribes of the Roppsmenn and Ungols. Except for border raids and the odd skirmish, peace exists between them and the Teutogens who border their territory to the west.[1a][2a]
  • ca. –30 (1494 IC) - Khan-Queen Miska leads the Gospodar tribe over the High Pass, driving back the Ungol people they encountered in the new, western lands.[1a][2a]
  • –27 (1497 IC) - The Ungol settlement of Praag was overrun by the migrating Gospodars and the Ungols are forced westwards and northwards.[2a]
  • –25 (1499 IC) - The army of Ungol Warlord Hetis Chaq defeated a Ropsmenn host led by King Weiran on the cliffs overlooking the Sea of Claws. The Ropsmenn are scattered and the Ungols take their lands in what will eventually become northern Kislev.[2a]
  • Unknown Date (1500 IC) - Boris Ursa leads the Kislevite hordes over the World's Edge mountains and declares the northern lands as the Kingdom of the Kislevites. (Apocryphal)[5a]
  • Unknown Date (1512 IC) - Boris Ursa left the newly-formed kingdom in the hands of his daughter Miska. Miska gathers her warriors and starts to extend the realm. She defeats two large Imperial armies. (Apocryphal)[5a]
  • Unknown Date (1515 IC) - Battle of the Scimitars. The Gospodar horde of Khan-Queen Miska clashes with the combined armies of the Empire, the Dwarfs and Bretonnia. The battle ends without a clear winner and Miska returns to the north where she fortifies the borders and declares her new-forged realm of Kislev and its Kislevites will defend the Motherland they have claimed with their own blood to the last citizen. The Dwarfs, Bretonnians and Men of the Empire are far too weak to re-conquer the north.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (ca. 1500 to 1600 IC) - The population of Kislev, Gospodar and Ungol alike, increases rapidly, even as ethnic tensions between the two peoples remain. [5a]
  • Unknown Date (2099 IC) - The Ascension of Igor the Terrible. As the first act after his coronation as tzar, Igor the Terrible ordered the beheading of one third of his bodyguard as retribution for an imagined insult.[5a]
  • 778 (2302 IC) - The Great War Against Chaos, or the "Great Patiotic War," as the Kislevites later call it, begins with small skirmishes with the forces of Chaos to the north of Kislev. Cossacks of the Northern Oblast fight against continually increasing numbers of Northmen Chaos Marauders and Chaos Warriors. Tzar Alexis Romanoff begins mustering the Kislevites for the inevitable war with the Chaos-worshippers. Despite the Kislevites' preparations, a mighty Warriors of Chaos army led by the twelfth Everchosen Asavar Kul eventually emerges out of the Chaos Wastes and defeated the forces of Kislev in two bloody battles. The city of Praag was beseiged and fell to the invaders after a bitter struggle, unleashing horrors beyond mortal comprehension as the power of Chaos is given full reign in the mortal world. The Imperial general Magnus the Pious first comes to notoriety in the city-state of Nuln and eventually unites the Empire of Man under his leadership to face the coming onslaught of Chaos. Tzar Alexis appeals to Magnus for aid. Bolgasgrad and other settlements along the River Lynsk are abandoned by their people who fear to suffer the same fate as that of Praag. Chaos fleets range across the Sea of Claws and begin to attack all merchant ships. The siege of Praag begins in the spring. Magnus the Pious and his growing Imperial army arrives in Middenheim and he proceeds to split his forces between cavalry and infantry. The mounted troops depart to attempt to relieve Praag, while Magnus leads the rest of his army through Talabheim to Kislev. Praag falls in the winter to Chaos before the Imperials can arrive, and then the siege of Kislev City by the twelfth Everchosen begins. The fate of Kislev teeters upon the point of the knife.[1a][2a][1a][2a][5a]
  • 779 (2303 IC) - In Kurkov, the Kislevite cavalry defeated an immense army of Chaos Knights in a colossal battle. The combined armies of the Empire, the Dwarfs of the Karaz Ankor and Kislev defeat the greatest Chaos horde in history at the Battle of the Gates of Kislev outside Kislev City. Magnus drives the Chaos armies across the River Lynsk into the Chaos Wastes and the Great War Against Chaos ends in a great but costly victory for the Men of the Old World. Kislev faces generations of reconstruction and spiritual cleansing of its lands and its people's souls to restore its prior strength. [5a]
  • 780 (2304 IC) - The Time of Re-building begins.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (2367 IC) - Captain Rossokovski of the Gryphon Legion leads his knights in the campaign waged against Bretonnians alongside the forces of the Empire. He recieves great military honours for his bravery and for saving the life of Emperor Paulus.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (ca. 2400 IC) - The rise of the Romanoff dynasty of Tzars.[5a]
  • 785 to 941 (2309 to 2465 IC) - The Reign of Tzarina Kattarin the Bloody ends when Tsarevich Pavel strikes the blow that ends her life, imprisoning her corpse in a block of ice where she remains to this day.[1a]
  • 968 (2492 IC) - Tzar Vladimir Bokha dies fighting Goblins east of Kislev. His son, Boris, inherits a nation that has done little to recover from the Great War against Chaos.[1a][2a]
  • 969 (2493 IC) - Tzar Boris Bokha defeats a large army of Beastmen outside Praag, earning the title Radii Bokha (Bokha the Red).[1a][2a]
  • 973 (2497 IC) - Radii Bokha returns from the wilds with the war-bear Urskin and becomes the first high priest of Ursun in over four hundred years; he takes the title Boris Ursus.[1a][2a]
  • 989 (2513 IC) - In The Battle of the Dobryion Fields, Cossack Chief Stepan Rasin is the sole survivor of both armies that originally numbered over 2000 men. Prince Ivan Radinov rescues Vasilisa the Wise from the dark sorceror Koshei the Immortal.[5a]
  • 990 (2514 IC) - Stepan Rasin climbs the Cliff of Death which stands in the middle of the River Urskoy. He is the first and only man to perform this feat.[5a]
  • 993 (2517 IC) - Tzar Boris dies in battle whilst leading an army north of the Lynsk into Troll Country. At an unnamed river crossing, the Tzar falls fighting Hetzar Feydaj. Tzar Boris's daughter, Katarin, becomes the Tzarina of Kislev, beginning the reign of the Ice Queen.[1a][2a]
  • 1000 (2524 IC) - During the End Times, in late Autumn Kislev is completely overwhelmed by a Chaotic invasion. Men, beasts of the dark forest, and hideous monsters surged through Kislev in numbers never before seen. They swept south. Cursed Praag was engulfed by howling daemons and horrors undreamed as Erengrad fell to midnight reavers in wolfships who burned the western seaport to the ground. The city of Kislev, impregnable fastness of the Ice Queen herself, is taken by storm in a single night of terrifying bloodshed. Its towering walls are turned to rubble, thick with screaming forests of impaled men and women whose ruined bodies are attended by red-legged carrion-feasters.[4]

Storm of Chaos
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This article or this section of the article contains information regarding the Storm of Chaos campaign and its aftermath, which is now considered a non-canon, alternate timeline.


  • 998 (2522 IC) - The power of the Dark Gods grows in the north as the northern tribes are united by Archaon. Chaos armies led by Surtha Lenk and Aelfric Cyenwulf ravage much of northern Kislev. Lenk is defeated by Boyarin Kurkosk at Mazhorod, while Albertalli leads the charge against the Kurgan line. Later, alongside the armies of Stirland, Talabecland, and the Ice Queen, Albertalli fights at Urszebya against the hordes of Aelfric Cyenwulf, both him and his men slain to a man to stall the enemy for Tzarina Katarin to cast her spell and achieve victory againsy Cyenwulf.[3b] Archaon leads his victorious armies south but is defeated outside the walls of Middenheim by the defenders of the Empire.[1a]

Something Rotten in Kislev

The first detailed timeline of Kislev's history was in 1e Roleplay's Something Rotten in Kislev in 1988. This version of Kislev's history disagrees with more modern versions in numerous details, such as the Ungols migrating to Kislev after the Gospodar, and the ruling class being Norscans rather than Gospodar.

  • -6250 IC - The western primeval forests are settled by Elves. Mountains and steppes remain uninhabited.[6a]
  • -6000 IC - The mountains are colonised by the Dwarfs.[6a]
  • -3500 IC - Elven colonies established along coast. Dwarfs expand into Worlds Edge Mountains and Black Mountains and begin river trade with Elven culture. Traces of the Elven colony at Erengrad are scarce, presumably covered by later structures or subsided in marshy ground.[6a]
  • -3000 IC - Elves and Dwarfs exploit the western forest. Minor settlements grow up along rivers. Ruins from that period are scarce.[6a]
  • -2150 IC - Increasing tension between Elven and Dwarven cultures. Major Dwarven and Elven fortifications along river routes contest freedom of movement in forest region. Ruins of Dwarven river fortresses may be found along the Urskoy and Upper Talabac.[6a]
  • -2000 IC - Dwarven expeditionary forces drive Elves from forest region and besiege Elven coastal colonies.[6a]
  • -1600 IC - One by one the Elven coastal colonies are destroyed, their refugees withdrawing into the forests. As the Dwarfs prepare to reduce the great Elven fortress at L'Anguille, they receive reports of Goblins invading the northern Worlds Edge Mountains. The Dwarven forces are immediately recalled, but are decimated on route by starvation, Goblin raids, and brutal winter storms. Dwarven adventurers still search for the remains of the Second Army, said to have been isolated and destroyed along the Urskoy.[6a]
  • -1500 IC - Dwarven realm shattered by volcanic activity in the south and Goblin incursions along the length of the Worlds Edge Mountains. Isolated Dwarven kingdoms survive, or migrate to Black and Grey Mountains. Gradually the surviving Dwarven trading settlements along the Urskoy and Upper Talabec are abandoned. Goblins occupy abandoned settlements in western forests, raiding Dwarfs, Elves, and one another. Goblin artifacts are often found in the vicinity of ancient Dwarven river forts.[6a]
  • -1000 IC - Goblin culture established throughout western forest and mountain regions, extending into forests of the modern Empire. Centres of daemon worship established on ancient Elven and Dwarven sacred ground. Many centres of modern Chaos-god worship are based on ancient daemon-worship sites.[6a]
  • -500 IC - Tribes of Human barbarians move from south into western forests of modern Empire. Large settlements are established along rivers and coastlines. Goblins withdraw into forest wilderness, but continue to raid Human settlements.[6a]
  • 0 IC - Goblin armies are driven into the mountains by united Dwarven and Human forces. Isolated Goblin tribes survive in the deep forests, but substantial Goblin settlements disappear east of the Worlds Edge Mountains. Sigmar Heldenharnmer grants Krugar, chief of the Talabec tribe, sovereignty over lands along the Talabec as far as the Eastern Mountains, where springs the mighty Talabec. The mountains remain the nominal holdings of the Dwarven Warlords. In fact, the forest and mountain regions are inhabited only by Goblins.[6a]
  • 500 IC - Unsuccessful attempts by Krugar's descendants to exploit the forest lands. Modest trading posts established at the sites of modern Kislev and Erengrad, but the region remains without substantial Human settlement.[6a]
  • 1000 IC - Plague and civil disorder in The Empire make plans for colonising the forest region impossible. Trappers and adventurers travel extensively along rivers as far as the headwaters of the Talabec. Imperial culture and authority is represented by missions of Taal and Rhya along major rivers, often at sites of former Elven and Dwarven settlements.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (1500 IC) - First wave of Gospodar peoples driven through the Northern Pass from Farside by pressure from Ungol moving into the steppes from the region of northern Cathay. Contact with monastic missions provides nomadic Gospodars with agricultural technology and a core of cultural unity. Norse princes of the Ropsmenn peoples raid Gospodar settlements along the Lynsk River and establish themselves as a ruling minority in Erengrad.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (1750 IC) - The Ungol hordes move into the western forest region. They are subdued by Norse princes in the north, but become rulers along the Talabec and Urskoy. Cult of Ulric is established under Prince Vermund in North, while priests of Taal and Rhya remain dominant under Ungol aristocracy. Talabheim faction of the Empire maintains empty pretext of Kislev as an eastern frontier province, but without any real power.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (1900 IC) - In the north, a loose confederation of states develops, ruled by Norse Ropsmenn princes and centred on the city-state of Erengrad under Ingjald the Red. Ungol warbands threaten Talabheim. The Emperor in Talabheim acknowledges the sovereignty of the Ungol chief Utilla over all lands east of Talabheim. The Ungol capital, Dorogo, becomes a cosmopolitan city, with overland contacts with Araby, the Dwarven realms and Cathay.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (2000 IC) - The Ungol aristocracy is slowly assimilated into the Gospodar culture. The Ropsmenn princedoms establish overland trade with Dorogo.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (2100 IC) - Igor the Terrible, prince of Erengrad, cordially invites the Prince of Dorogo to join the Confederacy of Kislevan States. When the prince politely declines, Igor sends an army to reduce Dorogo. renames the city Kislev, and embarks on a forty-year consolidation of the various minor states and principalities of southern and central Kislev, uniting the region under a single name and ruler for the first time. Over several decades Igor builds the Kremlin, the prince's fortress on the Hill of Heroes in Kislev overlooking the Urskoy River.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (2134 IC) - Igor's campaigns of conquest and consolidation are stalled in the foothills of the Worlds Edge Mountains and in the Farside steppes region. Nonetheless, Igor declares both territories part of the Confederated States of Imperial Kislev, and proclaims himself and his progeny Tsars of all Kislev.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (2247 IC) - The first agricultural colonies are established in Farside with mixed success.[5a][6a] Kislevites wage many battles with Hobgoblins and other Greenskins, until a strong contingent of the Kislevite army vanquishes the most powerful Hobgoblin Chieftain on the battlefield, Hariz Bloodknife.[5a] After several increasingly weak and ineffectual Tsars, a coalition of government bureaucrats and priests conspires to govern Kislev through puppet tzars.[6a]
  • 776 (2300 IC) - An entrenched bureaucracy and a priesthood increasingly concerned with temporal power contributes to the general deterioration of the central government. Remote princedoms and Erengrad continue to enjoy relative prosperity. Raids by Dolgans and Hobgoblins cause failure of all but strongest colonies in Farside.[6a]
  • 778 to 779 (2302 to 2303 IC) - Chaos hordes pour across the Lynsk. Praag falls, Erengrad survives with the aid of allied Norscan princes, and an army of mutants and Beastmen besieges Kislev. Emissaries from Tzar Alexis appeal for aid to Magnus the Pious, Emperor in Nuln. After two years of campaigning, the Imperial army under Magnus turns the tide in the crucial battle of Grovod Forest, and the siege of Kislev is lifted. Then, with Kislevite forces and Norscan allies, Magnus drives the Chaos armies across the Lynsk into the Chaos Wastes. Tsar Alexis declares Magnus a Hero of the People and swears everlasting brotherhood between the peoples of the Empire and Kislev.[6a]
  • 776 to 876 (2300 to 2400 IC) - During this period of relative stability, central and southern Kislev prosper under the Romanoff dynasty. The north is slow to recover from the Chaos incursion, and continues to be plagued by periodic external and internal conflicts with Chaos-inspired forces. The last of the Farside colonies is abandoned.[6a]
  • Unknown Date (2475 IC) - Continual skirmishes with the forces of Chaos. A series of Romanoff Tsars of varying ability culminates in the psychotic Ivan Romanoff, the last Romanoff Tzar is murdered by a fanatical Priest of Miska. Radii Bokha rises to power supported by both the military and aristocracy, despite the opposition of the conservative priesthoods and the bureaucracy.[6a]
  • Unknown Date to Present (2475 IC to Present) - Chaos activity north of the present Lynsk increases steadily. The princes of the northern colonies appeal to the central government for additional troops and funds for fortifications. Troops are withdrawn to deal with large bands of Beastmen and mutants raiding central and southern Kislev. Bolgasgrad, the largest trans-Lynsk colony, protests and secedes from the Kislevan confederacy. Increased Goblin activity along the Worlds Edge Mountains. The Dolgans unite under War Chief Darok Hookhorn and declare war on all Goblinoids. Endless and inconclusive raids and reprisals ensue, with no peaceful resolution in sight.[6a]

Canon Conflict

Citadel Journal issue number 14 report that Tzar Bokha died under mysterious circumstances in 2512 IC,[5a] instead of 2517 IC.[1a]

Prince Ivan Radinov is mentioned in Citadel Journal 14, 15, and 16, and other publications published in 1996. However, every other source regarding the modern Kislevite royal family has mentioned Tzarina Katarin as the only child of Tzar Boris Bokha, with the commander of the Gryphon Legion being Tordimir Lubovasyn.

Andy Hall, the writer of Total War: Warhammer III and a former employee of Games Workshop, confirmed in an interview that in Total War: Warhammer III alternate timeline Katarin Bokha is an only child.[3]

Sources

  • 1: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition: Realm of the Ice Queen (RPG)
    • 1a: pg. 18
  • 2: Warhammer Chronicles 2004 (6th Edition)
    • 2a: pg. 16
  • 3: Ursun's Teeth (Novel) by Graham McNeill
    • 3a: Ch. 10
    • 3b: Ch. 11
  • 4: With Ice and Sword (Short Story) by Graham McNeill
  • 5: Citadel Journal 14
    • 5a: pg. 12, "Kislev: The Claws of the Great Bear"
  • 6: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition: Something Rotten in Kislev (RPG)
    • 6a: pp. 12-13
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